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The French who fought for Hitler : memories from the outcasts
- Title
- The French who fought for Hitler : memories from the outcasts / Philippe Carrard.
- Author
- Carrard, Philippe.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 260 p. : maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Thousands of Frenchmen volunteered to provide military help to the Nazis during World War II, fighting in such places as Belorussia, Galicia, Pomerania, and Berlin. Utilizing these soldiers' memoirs, The French who fought for Hitler examines how these volunteers describe their exploits on the battlefield, their relations to civilian populations in occupied territories, and their sexual prowess. It also discusses how the volunteers account for their controversial decisions to enlist, to fight to the end, and finally to testify. Coining the concepts of "outcast memory" and "unlikeable vanquished," Philippe Carrard characterizes the type of bitter, unrepentant memory at work in the volunteers' recollections and situates it on the map of France's collective memory. In the process, he contributes to the ongoing conversation about memory, asking whether all testimonies are fit to be given and preserved, and how we should deal with life narratives that uphold positions now viewed as unacceptable"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Soldiers > France > Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > Germany
- Waffen-SS > Waffen-Grenadier-Division "Charlemagne," 33 > Biography
- Soldiers > Germany > Biography
- Collective memory > France
- World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, French
- Waffen-SS > Französische SS-Freiwilligen-Sturmbrigade > Biography
- Outcasts > France > Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, French
- Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme Biography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Backgrounds -- From the LVF to the Charlemagne -- Iteraries -- The historians' take -- Authenticity -- Verifications and guarantees -- The Sajer case -- Internet debates -- Authorship -- Veracity -- The French in Berlin -- Possibly too much -- As good in bed as on the battlefield -- Possibly too little -- Textualization -- Total recall -- Perspectives -- Frameworks -- The demonization of the enemy -- Frenchness -- The lens of culture -- Bearing witness -- Enlisting -- Fighting to the end -- Testifying -- From the outcasts' point of view -- Vanquished -- Estranged -- Unrepentant -- Appendix A: Biographical notices -- Appendix B: Maps.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-6981
- ISBN
- 9780521198226 (hardback)
- 0521198224 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2010024616
- OCLC
- YBP 2010024616
- Author
- Carrard, Philippe.
- Title
- The French who fought for Hitler : memories from the outcasts / Philippe Carrard.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-6981